The Bluffton University men's basketball team fought off the Earlham College Quakers for a big 77-68 Heartland Conference win at the Sommer Center on Wednesday, Jan. 23. Although the Beavers never led throughout the entire first stanza, they fought back in the second half to take down the Quakers in a pivotal HCAC tilt. Bluffton improved to 14-4 overall and 8-3 in the Heartland Conference, while Earlham fell to 5-12 and 4-6 in the HCAC.
Margaret Zelma (Shelly) Weaver died on Jan. 20, 2019, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton, Ohio.
Margaret was born in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 8, 1922, to Katie May (Rickert) and Elwood S. Shelly. In 1939 she graduated from Pennsburg High School and began studying at Bluffton College, where she met Dick Weaver. She and Dick were married on June 8, 1943.
Margaret taught English and coached girls' softball for a year in Linden, Michigan, before leaving for Puerto Rico where she served with Dick in alternative service from 1944-46. She taught English there.
This is an election year for voters in the Bluffton school district.
On the Nov. 5 ballot will be candidates for Bluffton mayor, two Bluffton council seats, two Bluffton school board seats, one Richland Township trustee seat and one Monroe Township trustee seat. Beaverdam voters will select a mayor and two council members.
In addition, the Bluffton school board will place two renewal levies. Those levies will be on the May 7 primary ballot.
After 25 years of service, Michael Schoenhofer, executive director of the Mental Health & Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin Counties will retire on Jan. 31.
Schoenhofer has served as president of the Lima Rotary Club and president of the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities. He has served on the Governor’s Advisory Board at the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, the Social Work Advisory Board at Bluffton University, the Allen County Health Department Board, and West Central Learning Academy’s Board.
